COVID-19: A Single-Center ICU Experience of the First Wave in the Philippines
Ubaldo et al., Critical Care Research and Practice, 10.1155/2021/7510306
Ubaldo et al., COVID-19: A Single-Center ICU Experience of the First Wave in the Philippines, Critical Care Research and Practice, 10.1155/2021/7510306
Retrospective ICU patients in the Philippines showing unadjusted HCQ RR 0.82, p = 0.64.Although the 18% lower mortality is not statistically significant, it is consistent with the significant 22% lower mortality [18‑27%] from meta analysis of the 232 mortality results to date.
This study is excluded in the after exclusion results of meta
analysis:
substantial unadjusted confounding by indication likely; very late stage, ICU patients; unadjusted results with no group details.
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